Atrocity and American military justice in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: trial by army
By: Louise Barnett
Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia -- 64; Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) -- 64.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415556408; 9780203861578
Description: "This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities. Using individual judicial proceedings held within war-time Southeast Asia, Louise Barnett analyses how the American military legal system handled crimes against civilians and determines what these cases reveal about the way that war produces atrocity against civilians. Presenting these atrocities and subsequent trials in a way that considers both the personal and the institutional the author considers how and why atrocity happens, the terrain of justification, and the degree to which the army and American society have been willing to take military crimes against civilians seriously."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mr. Root's atrocity trials; title: The real atrocity trials; title: Macarthur and Yamashita; title: Anatomy of an atrocity : Captain Vincent Hartmann and the trial that wasn't; title: My Lai : crossing the line.